Nothingandall: On this day in History

0051 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
0251 - Pope Lucius I dies.
303 or 304 - Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
0480 - Saint Landry dies. Bishop of Sées
0561 - Pope Pelagius I dies
0852 - Croatian Duke Trpimir I issued a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
0932 - Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 - Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1172 - Stephen III of Hungary dies (b. 1147).
1188 - Blanche of Castile was born (d. 1252). Wife of Louis VIII of France.
1193 - Saladin [Salah al-Din Yusuf Ibn Ayyub] dies in Damasco (b. 1138). Muslim leader, who recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders.
1215 - King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.
1238 - The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
1238 - Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland dies (b. 1210). Wife of Alexander II.
1238 - Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir dies (b. 1189).
1275 - Chinese astronomers observe a total eclipse of the sun.
1303 - Daniel of Moscow dies (b. 1261). Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy.
1351 - Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 - Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) was crowned King of Poland.
1394 - Henry the Navigator was born in Porto (d. 1460). Portuguese explorer. / Nasce, no Porto, o Infante D. Henrique. Príncipe português e impulsionador dos Descobrimentos († 1460).
1461 - Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1484 - Saint Casimir dies (b. 1458). Prince of Poland.
1492 - King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England.
1492 - Franceso de Layolle was born in Florence (d. 1540). Italian composer.
1493 - Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal aboard his ship Niña from his discovery voyage to America. He returned to Spain on March 15.
1496 - Sigismund of Austria dies. Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
1519 - Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
1525 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born (d. 1594). Italian composer.
1570 - King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students.
1583 - Bernard Gilpin dies (b. 1517). English clergyman, "Apostle of the North".
1604 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini dies (b. 1539). Italian theologian.
1610 - William Dobson was born (d. 1646). English portraitist and painter.
1611 - George Abbot is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
1615 - Hans von Aachen dies (b. 1552). German painter.
1619 - Anne of Denmark dies (b. 1547). Consort of James I of England.
1621 - Jakarta, Java is renamed Batavia.
1629 - Massachusetts Bay Colony, which had the role of colonizing the Americas, is granted a Royal charter.
1634 - Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts.
1651 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers was born (d. 1716).
1665 - English king Charles II declares war on The Netherlands which marked the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1665 - Philip Christoph von Königsmarck was born (d. 1694). Swedish soldier.
1675 - John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England.
1678 - Antonio (Lucio) Vivaldi was born in Veneza (d. 1741). Italian composer (Four Seasons).
1681 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1699 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck, Germany.

1702 - Jack Sheppard was born (d. 1724). English burglar and escapee.

1706 - Lauritz de Thurah was born (d. 1759). Danish architect and architectural writer.

1707 - O Ato da União agrupa os reinos da Inglaterra e Escócia no Reino da Grã-Bretanha.

1710 - Louis III, Prince of Condé dies (b. 1668).

1714 - English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena.

1715 - James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave was born (d. 1763). British statesman.

1719 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot was born (d. 1777). British governor of Madras.

1729 - Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (d. 1794)

1733 - Claude de Forbin dies (b. 1656). French naval commander.

1744 - John Anstis dies (b. 1669). Garter King of Arms.

1745 - Charles Dibdin was born (d. 1814). English composer.

1746 - Kazimierz Pułaski was born (d. 1779). American Revolutionary War general.

1756 - Sir Henry Raeburn was born (d. 1823). Scottish painter.

1762 - Johannes Zick dies (b. 1702). German fresco painter.

1768 - August Friedrich Wilhelm Holtzhausen was born (d. 1827). Engineer.

1774 - First sighting of Orion Nebula by William Herschel.

1776 - The American War of Independence: The Americans capture "Dorchester Heights" dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts.

1777 - Portugal: O Marquês de Pombal foi destituído de todos os seus cargos e desterrado.

1778 - The Continental Congress voted to ratify both the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance with France. The two treaties were the first entered into by the United States government.

1781 - Rebecca Gratz was born (d. 1869). American educator and philanthropist.

1782 - Johann Rudolf Wyss was born (d. 1830). Swiss folklorist.

1784 - Agustina de Aragón [Agustina Zaragoza Domenech] was born in Barcelona (d. 19 May 1854).

1789 - In New York City, the first U.S. Congress meets and declares the new Constitution of the United States is in effect.

1790 - France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.

1791 - Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.

1791 - A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).

1792 - Oranges were introduced into Hawaii.

1792 - Samuel Slocum was born (d. 1861). American inventor.

1793 - French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands.

1793 - Karl Lachmann was born (d. 1851). German philologist.

1793 - Louis de Bourbon dies (b. 1725). French admiral.

1794 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. The Amendment limited the jurisdiction of the federal courts to automatically hear cases brought against a state by the citizens of another state. Later interpretations expanded this to include citizens of the state being sued, as well.

1795 - John Collins dies (b. 1717). American politician.

1797 - In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.

1801 - Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the USA, becomes the first US president inaugurated in Washington, DC.

1804 - Castle Hill Rebelion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.

1804 - The British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) was founded at a large interdenominational meeting in London.

1805 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze dies (b. 1725). French painter.

1807 - Abraham Baldwin dies (b. 1754). American politician.

1811 - Mariano Moreno dies. Argentine statesman and writer.

1813 - Russian troops fighting the army of Napoleon reach Berlin in Germany and the French garrison evacuate the city without a fight.

1814 - Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London and Thamesville near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.

1817 - Edwards Pierrepont was born (d. 1892). American statesman, Attorney General.

1819 - Charles Oberthur was born (d. 1895). German-born harpist.

1820 - Francesco Bentivegna was born (d. 1856). Italian revolutionary.

1821 - Princess Elizabeth of Clarence dies (b. 1820). Daughter of King William IV, granddaughter of King George III.

1822 - Jules Antoine Lissajous was born (d. 1880). French mathematician.

1824 - The 'National Institution for the Preservation of Lif from Shipwreck' was founded in Britain, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.

1825 - John Quincy Adams inaugurated as 6th President.

1825 - Despite having lost in both the electoral and popular votes in the 1824 U.S. Presidential Election, John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as the sixth President of the United States.

1826 - El Congreso argentino acuerda que Buenos Aires sea la capital de la República.

1826 - John Buford was born (d. 1863). American Civil War Union cavalry officer.

1826 - Theodore Judah was born (d. 1863). American railroad engineer.

1827 - The Illustrious Sigma Phi Society is founded at Union College.

1828 - Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys) was born (d. 1870). Welsh clergyman and author.

1829 - Unruly crowd mobs White House during the President Jackson inaugural ball.

1830 - Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi, premieres in Venice.

1832 - Jean-François Champollion dies (b. 1790). French scholar, Egyptologist.

1835 - John Hughlings Jackson was born (d. 1911). English neurologist.

1837 - Chicago, Illinois is granted a city charter by Illinois.

1841 - Inauguration of William Henry Harrison as 9th President of the USA. Harrison died exactly one month into his term — the briefest presidency in the history of the office - and was the first president to die in office.

1847 - Karl Bayer was born (d. 1904). Austrian chemist.

1848 - Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia

1849 - Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in office as 12th President of the United States on a Sabbath (Sunday). Urban legend instead holds that the office of President of the United States is vacant for a single day and that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate was President de jure that day. However, Taylor was president despite not taking the oath.

1851 - James Richardson dies (b. 1809). British explorer.

1852 - Nikolay (Vasilyevich) Gogol dies (b. 31 March 1809 in Sorochintsy, near Poltava, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now in Ukraine]). Ukrainian-born Russian humorist, dramatist, and novelist, whose novel Myortvye dushi (Dead Souls) and whose short story “Shinel” (“The Overcoat”) are considered the foundations of the great 19th-century tradition of Russian realism.

1853 - Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands.

1853 - An oncoming mail train shatters the rear car of a stalled Pennsylvania Railroad emigrant train in the Allegheny Mountains near Mount Union, Pennsylvania, killing seven. This was the highest single U.S. accident toll up to this time.

1853 - Reconocimiento de la independencia de Paraguay por Francia, Gran Bretaña y Estados Unidos.

1853 - Christian Leopold von Buch dies (b. 1774). German geologist.

1854 - Sir Napier Shaw was born (d. 1945). British meteorologist.

1856 - Alfred William Rich was born (d. 1921). English painter.

1856 - Toru Dutt was born (d. 1877). English and French poet and author.

1857 - El demócrata James Buchanam asume la presidencia de Estados Unidos.

1857 - Terminou a guerra anglo-persa.

1858 - Matthew Perry dies (b. 1794). U.S. naval officer.

1859 - Charter of the French Opera House in New Orleans is granted, which opens on December 1 of the same year with a gala performance of Rossini's "William Tell".

1859 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov was born (d. 1905). Russian physicist.

1861 - President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office.

1861 - Confederate States adopt "Stars and Bars" flag, on the same day that Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as 16th President of the United States.

1861 - España acepta el ofrecimiento de la que había sido colonia de Santo Domingo para reincorporarse a la Monarquía.

1862 - Jacob Robert Emden was born (d. 1940). Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist.

1863 - The Idaho Territory is created as a political division of the United States.

1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Thompson's Station in Tennessee.

1863 - John Henry Wigmore was born (d. 1943). American jurist.

1863 - Reginald Innes Pocock was born (d. 1947). British zoologist.

1864 - David W. Taylor was born (d. 1940). U.S. Navy architect.

1864 - Thomas Starr King dies (b. 1824). Influential Californian Unitarian minister during the American Civil War.

1865 - Third (and last) national flag of the Confederate States of America adopted.

1866 - Alexander Campbell dies (b. 1788). Irish founder of the Disciples of Christ.

1868 - Jesse Chisholm dies (b. 1805). American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail.

1869 - Eugenio de Castro e Almeida was born in Coimbra (d. 1944). Portuguese poet and writer / Nasce, em Coimbra Eugénio de Castro (m. 17 Ago 1944). Poeta e escritor português (Oaristos).

1870 - Thomas Sturge Moore was born (d. 1944). English poet.

1871 - Boris Galerkin was born (d. 1945). Russian mathematician.

1872 - Johannes Carsten Hauch dies (b. 1790). Danish poet.

1873 - Guy Wetmore Carryl was born (d. 1904). American humorist and poet.

1873 - John H. Trumbull was born (d. 1961). 54th Governor of Connecticut.

1875 - Enrique Rodríguez Larreta was born. Argentine writer and politician.

1875 - Mihály Károlyi was born (d. 1955). Former Prime Minister and President of Hungary.

1876 - US Congress ends "impeachment" of Minister of War Belknap.

1876 - Léon-Paul Fargue was born (d. 1947). French poet.

1876 - Theodore Hardeen was born (d. 1945). Founder of the Magician's Guild.

1877 - Emile Berliner invents the microphone.

1877 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake debuts.

1877 - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike was born (d. 1957). Russian composer.

1877 - Fritz Graebner was born (d. 1934). German ethnologist.

1877 - Garrett Morgan was born (d. 1963). American inventor.

1878 - Arishima Takeo was born (d. 1923). Japanese writer.

1878 - Egbert Van Alstyne was born (d. 1951). American songwriter and pianist.

1878 - Peter D. Ouspensky was born (d. 1947). Russian philosopher.

1879 - Josip Murn Aleksandrov was born (d. 1901). Slovenian poet.

1880 - New York Daily Graphic publishes the first half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan.

1880 - Channing Pollock was born (d. 1946). American playwright and critic.

1881 - A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmesstory, begins.

1881 - South African President Kruger accepts ceasefire.

1881 - James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th president.

1881 - Maude Fealy was born (d. 1971). American actor.

1881 - Richard C. Tolman was born (d. 1948). American mathematical physicist.

1881 - Thomas Sigismund Stribling was born (d. 1965). American writer.

1881 - Todor Aleksandrov was born (d. 1924). Bulgarian revolutionary.

1882 - Britain's first electric trams run in East London.

1882 - Nicolae Titulescu was born (d. 1941). Romanian diplomat.

1883 - Sam Langford was born (d. 1956). Canadian boxer.

1883 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens dies (b. 1812). Former Vice-President of the Confederate States of America.

1884 - Red Murray was born (d. 1958). American baseball player.

1885 - Guatemala decide anexionarse El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica y Honduras y constituir una República Federal.

1885 - Gilbert & Sullivan's opera The Mikado premieres in London.

1886 - Paul Bazelaire was born (d. 1958). French cellist.

1887 - Test run of first Daimler car in Esslingen and Cannstatt, Germany.

1887 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile which he test runs in Esslingen and Cannstatt, Germany.

1887 - 23-year-old William Randolph Hearst buys the San Francisco Examiner, and starts to build the Hearst newspaper empire.

1887 - John Alexander Buchanan was born (d. 1976). Canadian politician and civil engineer.

1887 - Violet MacMillan was born (d. 1953). American actress.

1888 - Jeff Pfeffer was born (d. 1972). American baseball player.

1888 - Knute Rockne was born (d. 1931). American football star, coach.

1988 - Rafaela Ottiano was born (d. 1942). Italian-born American actress.

1888 - Amos Bronson Alcott dies (b. 1799). American philosopher.

1889 - Oren E. Long was born (d. 1965). 10th Territorial Governor of Hawaii.

1889 - Oscar Chisini was born (d. 1967). Italian mathematician.

1889 - Pearl White was born (d. 1938). American actress.

1889 - Robert William Wood was born (d. 1979). American landscape artist.

1890 - The Prince of Wales, HRH Prince Albert Edward (later to become King Edward VII), eldest son of and heir apparent to Queen Victoria, opens the 1,710 foot Forth Bridge in Scotland.

1890 - The longest bridge in the United Kingdom, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII.

1891 - Dazzy Vance was born (d. 1961). American baseball player.

1891 - Lois Wilson was born (d. 1988). Founder of Al-Anon.

1893 - Congo Free State: The army of Francis, Baron Dhanis attacks the Lualaba, enabling him to transport his troops across the Upper Congo and, capture Nyangwe almost without an effort.

1893 - Adolph Lowe (Adolf Löwe) was born (d. 1995). German sociologist and economist.

1893 - Charles Herbert Colvin was born (d. 1985). American aeronautical engineer.

1894 - Great fire in Shanghai. Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.

1895 - Premiere of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony in Berlin.

1895 - Jesse Baker was born (d. 1976). American baseball player.

1895 - Milt Gross was born (d. 1953). American comic book illustrator.

1895 - Shemp Howard was born (d. 1955). American comedian.

1896 - Kai Holm was born (d. 1985). Danish film actor.

1897 - Lefty O'Doul was born (d. 1969). American baseball star, restaurateur.

1897 - Moreira César dies (b. 7 Jul 1850). Brazilian militar.

1898 - Georges Dumézil was born (d. 1940). French philologist.

1899 - Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.

1899 - Emilio Prados was born (d. 1962). Spanish poet and editor.

1899 - Liana Del Balzo was born (d. 1982). Italian film actress.

1900 - Herbert Biberman was born (d. 1971). American screenwriter.

1901 - Publicación del primer número del periódico "La Discusión", de La Habana, de tendencia nacionalista.

1901 - President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president .

1901 - Charles Goren was born. American bridge player and writer.

1901 - Jean Joseph Rabearivelo was born (d. 1991). Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937)1901 - Charles Goren, American bridge player and writer.

1901 - Wilbur R. Franks was born (d. 1986). Canadian scientist.

1902 - In Chicago, Illinois, the American Automobile Association is established.

1902 - Fred Mallin was born (d. 1987). English boxer.

1902 - Russell Reeder was born (d. 1998). United States Army officer and author.

1903 - Carrie Best was born (d. 2001). Canadian journalist.

1903 - Dorothy Mackaill was born (d. 1990). British-born actress.

1903 - John Scarne was born (d. 1985). American magician.

1903 - Luis Carrero Blanco was born (d. 1973). Spanish statesman.

1903 - Malcolm Dole was born (d. 1990). American chemist.

1903 - Merwin Graham was born (d. 1989). American Olympic track and field athlete.

1903 - William C. Boyd was born (d. 1983). American immunochemist.

1903 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse dies (b. 1834). English novelist.

1904 - Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.

1904 - Chief Tahachee was born (d. 1978). American actor.

1904 - George Gamow was born (d. 1968). Ukrainian-born physicist.

1904 - Joseph Schmidt was born (d. 1942). Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor.

1905 - Gerhart Hauptmann's 'Elga' premieres in Berlin.

1906 - Avery Fisher was born (d. 1994). American audio specialist.

1906 - Buck Canel was born (d. 1980). Argentine American sportscaster.

1906 - Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr. was born (d. 2007). American businessman.

1906 - Georges Ronsse was born (d. 1969). Belgian bicycle racer.

1906 - Meindert DeJong was born (d. 1991). American author.

1906 - John McAllister Schofield dies (b. 1831). Former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army.

1907 - Louis Botha is appointed Prime Minister of the Transvaal, South Africa.

1907 - Eleanor "Sis" Daley was born (d. 2003). Wife of Richard J. Daley.

1908 - The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.

1908 - T.R.M. Howard was born (d. 1976). American civil rights leader.

1908 - Thomas Shaw was born (d. 1977). American musician.

1909 - President William Taft approves Congressional Gold Medals for the Wright brothers.

1909 - George Edward Holbrook was born (d. 1987). American chemical engineer.

1909 - Harry Helmsley was born (d. 1997). American real estate entrepreneur.

1910 - Nascimento de Tancredo Neves (Tancredo de Almeida Neves), 43° Presidente do Brasil (1985/1990, embora não empossado), em São João Del Rei-MG. Faleceu vitimado por doença, em circunstâncias bastante estranhas, um dia antes de sua posse.

1910 - Miriam Kressyn was born (d. 1996). Polish-born actor.

1910 - Knut Ångström dies (b. 1857). Swedish physicist.

1911 - Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first socialist congressman in US.

1911 - Carl Forberg was born (d. 2000). American racecar driver.

1911 - Fialho de Almeida dies (b. 7 May 1857). Portuguese writer. / Morreu, na vila de Cuba, o escritor português Fialho de Almeida , nascido em 7 de Maio de 1857 em Vila de Frades, no Baixo Alentejo. Da sua obra fazem parte "Os Gatos" , "Os Contos", "A cidade do Vício", "O País das Uvas".

1912 - Afro Basaldella was born (d. 1976). Italian painter.

1912 - Carl Marzani was born (d. 1994). American documentarian.

1912 - Ferdinand Leitner was born (d. 1996). German conductor.

1912 - Judith Furse was born (d. 1974). British character actress.

1913 - The United States Department of Commerce and United States Department of Labor are established by splitting the duties of the 10-year-old Dept. of Commerce and Labor.

1913 - First US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed.

1913 - John Garfield was born (d. 21 May1952) . Actor (Destination Tokyo, Gentlemmen's Agreement, The Postman Always Rings Twice).

1913 - John H. Fremlin was born (d. 1995). English nuclear physicist.

1913 - Taos Amrouche was born (d. 1976). Algerian writer and singer.

1913 - Willie Johnson was born (d. 1995). American guitarist.

1914 - Éxito médico en Francia: separación de dos hermanas siamesas.

1914 - Gino Colaussi (Luigi Colaussi) was born (d. 1991). Italian footballer.

1914 - Robert R. Wilson was born (d. 2000). American physicist, sculptor and architect.

1914 - Ward Kimball was born (d. 2002). American cartoonist.

1915 - Charles Johnston, Baron Johnston of Rockport was born (d. 2002). British politician and businessman.

1915 - Carlos Surinach was born (d. 1997). Spanish composer.

1915 - Frank Sleeman was born (d. 2000). Australian administrator and politician.

1915 - Robert Thom, American painter and historian (d. 1979)

1915 - William Willett dies (b. 1856). Inventor of Daylight Saving Time.

1916 - Giorgio Bassani was born (d. 2000). Italian writer.

1916 - Hans Eysenck was born (d. 1997). German-born psychologist.

1916 - Maurice Argent was born (d. 1981). American actor.

1916 - Michael Howard was born (d. 1988). British actor and comedian.

1916 - William Alland was born (d. 1997). American actor, producer, writer and director.

1916 - Franz Marc dies (b. 1880). German artist.

1917 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.

1917 - Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia's renunciation of the throne is made public, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia publicly issues his abdication manifesto. The victory of the February Revolution.

1917 - Clyde McCullough was born (d. 1982). American baseball player.

1918 - The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.

1918 - Margaret Osborne duPont was born. American tennis player.

1919 - Buck Baker was born (d. 2002). American racecar driver.

1919 - Tan Chee Khoon was born (d. 1996). Malaysian politician.

1920 - Alan MacNaughtan was born (d. 2002). Scottish actor.

1920 - Jean Lecanuet was born (d. 1993). French politician.

1921 - Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas.

1921 - E. M. Forster sets out on a passage to India to assume his duties as secretary to the Maharaja of the state of Dewas Senior.

1921 - Dinny Pails was born. Australian tennis player.

1921 - Halim El-Dabh was born. Egyptian-born composer.

1921 - Joan Greenwood was born (d. 1987). English actress.

1921 - Wilson Harris was born. Guyanese writer.

1922 - Bert Williams dies (b. 1874). American entertainer.

1923 - Lenin's last article about Red bureaucracy was published in Pravda.

1923 - Sir Patrick Moore was born. British astronomer.

1924 - The song 'Happy Birthday To You' is published by Claydon Sunny.

1924 - Kenneth O'Donnell was born (d. 1977). Aide to US President John F. Kennedy.

1925 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.

1925 - Nascimento de Inezita Barroso (Inês Madalena Aranha de Lima), cantora da MPB, em São Paulo-SP.

1925 - Paul Mauriat was born. French musician

1925 - Moritz Moszkowski dies (b. 1854). Polish/German composer.

1925 - James Ward dies (b. 1843).English psychologist and philosopher

1925 - Monte Ward dies (b. 1860). American baseball player.

1926 - The government of Dirk Jan de Geer takes office in The Netherlands.

1926 - Don Rendell was born. English jazz musician and arranger.

1926 - Fran Warren was born. American singer.

1926 - Iñigo Sanz was born. Professor of Law.

1926 - James J. Eagan was born (d. 2000). Former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri. Second longest serving Mayor in the United States.

1926 - Pascual Pérez was born (d. 1977). Argentine boxer.

1926 - Richard DeVos was born. American billionaire, co-founder of Amway.

1927 - Cy Touff was born (d. 2003). American jazz musician.

1927 - Dick Savitt was born. American tennis player.

1927 - Jacques Dupin was born. French poet.

1927 - Philip Batt was born. 29th Governor of Idaho.

1927 - Robert Orben was born. American magician.

1927 - Thayer David was born (d. 1978). American actor.

1927 - Ira Remsen dies (b. 10 Feb 1846). American scientist, chemist.

1928 - Se inaugura el estadio del club Independiente, el primero de cemento en Argentina.

1928 - Alan Sillitoe was born. English writer.

1928 - Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente was born. Naturalist.

1928 - Samuel Adler was born. American composer.

1929 - Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st President.

1929 - Charles Curtis becomes the first native-American Vice President.

1929 - Bernard Haitink was born. Dutch conductor.

1929 - Darrett B. Rutman was born (d. 1997). US historian.

1929 - Elaine Shore was born (d. 2007). American actress.

1929 - Josep Mestres Quadreny was born. Catalan composer.

1929 - Peter Swerling was born. American RADAR theoretician.

1930 - Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.

1930 - Blaze levels hangar at Atlanta Airport, destroying twenty aircraft.

1931 - The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) meet to sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing that salt is freely used by the poorest layers of the population / O Vice-Rei britânico da Índia põe fim ao monopólio estatal do sal com o objetivo de evitar a continuação de um movimento de desobediência civil liderado por Gandhi.

1931 - Alice Rivlin was born. American economist.

1931 - Bob Johnson was born (d. 1991). American ice hockey coach.

1931 - Wally Bruner was born (d. 1997). American journalist and television host.

1931 - William Henry Keeler was born. American Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal.

1932 - Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg. South African singer (Grammy 1965).

1932 - Ryszard Kapuściński was born (d. 2007). Polish journalist.

1932 - Ed Roth was born (d. 2001). American car designer.

1932 - Frank Wells was born (d. 1994). American entertainment businessman.

1933 - Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the United States Cabinet.

1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlines his "New Deal" in his inauguration speech.

1933 - The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates authoritarian rule by decree (see Austrofascism).

1933 - Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.

1933 - Ann Burton was born (d. 1989). Dutch jazz singer.

1933 - John W Mills was born. British sculptor.

1933 - Nino Vaccarella was born. Italian racing driver.

1934 - Anne Haney was born (d. 2001). American actress.

1934 - Barbara McNair was born (d. 2007). American singer and actress.

1934 - Gleb Yakunin was born. Russian priest and dissident.

1934 - Janez Strnad was born. Slovenian physicist.

1934 - John Duffey was born (d. 1996). Bluegrass musician.

1934 - Mario Davidovsky was born. Argentinian composer.

1934 - Sandra Reynolds was born. South African tennis player.

1935 - Bent Larsen was born. Danish chess player.

1935 - Nancy Whiskey was born (d. 2003). Scottish folk singer.

1936 - First flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany.

1936 - Aribert Reimann was born. German composer.

1936 - Eric Allendale was born (d. 2001). West Indian trombonist and songwriter.

1936 - Jim Clark was born (d. 1968). Scotish racing driver.

1936 - Robert Garrow was born (d. 1978). American serial killer.

1937 - The 9th Annual Academy Awards, hosted by George Jessel (actor), are held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The awards for the films of 1936 went : Outstanding Production/Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld (from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer); Best Director: Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes To Town; Actor: Paul Muni (The Story Of Louis Pasteur); Actor in a Supporting Role: Walter Brennan (Come and Get It); Best Actress: Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld); Actress in a Supporting Role: Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse); Best Song: Dorothy Fields & Jerome Kern for The Way You Look Tonight from the movie, Swing Time.

1937 - Barney Wilen was born (d. 1996). French jazz saxophonist.

1937 - Graham Dowling was born. New Zealand cricketer.

1937 - Leslie Gelb was born. American foreign policy advisor.

1937 - Yuri Senkevich was born (d. 2003). Russian cosmonaut.

1938 - Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat and researcher

1938 - Angus MacLise was born (d. 1979). American percussionist.

1938 - Anton Stanislaus Balasingham was born (d. 2006). Political strategist and negotiator.

1938 - Don Perkins was born. American football player.

1938 - Paula Prentiss was born. American actress.

1938 - George Foster Peabody dies (b. 1852)., American politician.

1938 - Jack Taylor dies (b. 1874). American baseball player.

1939 - Carlos Vereza was born. Brazilian actor.

1939 - Jack Fisher was born. American baseball player.

1939 - José A. Muguerza dies in Monterrey. Mexican businessman and philantroper.

1940 - Tamara Wilcox was born (d. 1998). American actress.

1940 - Tom Pedigo was born (d. 2000). American set decorator.

1940 - Volodymyr Morozov was born. Ukrainian flatwater canoer.

1940 - Hamlin Garland dies (b. 1860). American novelist.

1941 -The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.

1941 - Adolf Hitler applies pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact.

1941 - Adrian Lyne was born. English film director.

1941 - Bobby Shew was born. American jazz musician.

1941 - John Aprea was born. American actor.

1941 - Ludwig Quidde dies (b. 1858). German pacifist, Nobel laureate.

1942 - The Stage Door Canteen opens on West 44th Street in New York City.

1942 - Charles C. Krulak was born, 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps.

1942 - David Matthews was born. American keyboardist.

1942 - Gloria Gaither was born. American gospel songwriter.

1943 - The 15th Academy Awards presentation: The 15th Academy Awards presentation drew Hollywood luminaries to the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles to celebrate the great work done during the year 1942. Everybody seemed to like Mrs. Miniver (from Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer) better than any other movie that year. That movie was so good that it won William Wyler the Best Director Oscar; Greer Garson the Best Actress statuette; Teresa Wright the Best Actress in a Supporting Role prize; Joseph Ruttenberg the Cinematography/black-and-white Oscar; and George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis the Writing/Screenplay award. James Cagney was presented the Best Actor Oscar for Yankee Doodle Dandy and Van Heflin was voted Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Johnny Eager. And one other award is worth mentioning: a guy named Irving Berlin picked up the Best Song Oscar for a little ditty he had written for the film, Holiday Inn: White Christmas.

1943 - Lucio Dalla was born. Italian singer and songwriter.

1943 - Zoltan Jeney was born. Hungarian composer.

1944 - In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing.

1944 - First US daylight bombing of Berlin and Anti-Germany strikes in northern Italy.

1944 - Bobby Womack was born. American singer.

1944 - Greg Weld was born (d. 2008). American racecar driver.

1944 - Harvey Postlethwaite was born (d. 1999). English automotive engineer.

1944 - Michael "Mick" Wilson was born. Drummer (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich).

1944 - Ulrich Roski was born (d. 2003). German singer-songwriter.

1944 - Louis Buchalter dies executed (b. 1897). Jewish American mobster.

1944 - Louis Capone dies executed (b. 1896). New York organized crime figure.

1944 - Emanuel Weiss dies executed (b. 1906). American hitman.

1944 - Fannie Barrier Williams dies (b. 1855). American educator and political activist.

1945 - In Britain, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Army as a driver.

1945 - Finland declares war on nazi-Germany.

1945 - Lapland War: Finland declares war on nazi-Germany.

1945 - Dieter Meier was born. Swiss singer.

1945 - Femi Benussi was born. Italian film actress.

1945 - Frank Novak was born. American actor.

1945 - Gary Williams was born. American basketball coach.

1945 - Tara Browne was born (d. 1966). British socialite.

1945 - Tim Weigel was born (d. 2001). American broadcaster.

1945 - Tommy Svensson was born. Swedish football manager.

1945 - Lucille La Verne dies (b. 1972). American actress.

1945 - Mark Sandrich dies (b. 1900). American film director, writer and producer.

1946 - The Voice Of Frank Sinatra, the first Frank Sinatra album ever, is released by Columbia Records.

1946 - C.G.E. Mannerheim resigns from the post of President of Finland.

1946 - The United States, France and the United Kingdom launch a call with the Spaniards in favour of the inversion of the pro-Franco mode.

1946 - Daniel Frisella was born (d. 1977). American baseball player.

1946 - David Gittins (Red Stripe) was born. Singer (Flying Pickets).

1946 - Haile Gerima was born. Ethiopian filmmaker.

1946 - Harvey Goldsmith was born. British impresario.

1946 - Jean-Claude Schmitt was born. Prominent French medievalist

1946 - Michael Ashcroft was born. English entrepreneur.

1946 - Patricia Kennealy-Morrison was born. American author.

1946 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke dies (b. 1886). Danish big-game hunter.

1947 - David Franzoni was born. American screenwriter.

1947 - Gunnar Hansen was born. Icelandic actor.

1947 - Gwen Welles was born (d. 1993). American actress.

1947 - Jan Garbarek was born. Norwegian musician.

1948 - Acuerdo entre Argentina y Chile sobre la Antártida.

1948 - The first American civilian (Herbert Henry Hoover) flies at supersonic speeds in Bell X-1 in Muroc, California.

1948 - Chris Squire was born. British bassist.

1948 - James Ellroy was born. American writer.

1948 - Jean O'Leary was born (d. 2005). American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician.

1948 - Leron Lee was born. American baseball player.

1948 - Lindy Chamberlain was born. Australian author.

1948 - Shakin' Stevens was born. Welsh musician.

1948 - Tom Grieve was born. American baseball player.

1948 - Antonin Artaud dies (b. 1896). French actor/director.

1949 - Security Council of United Nations recommends membership for Israel.

1949 - Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister.

1949 - Carroll Baker was born. Canadian country music singer and songwriter.

1949 - Cookie Mueller was born (d. 1989). American actress and writer.

1949 - Sergei Bagapsh was born. President of the partially recognized de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia.

1950 - US Premiere of Walt Disney's animated film Cinderella.

1950 - Francis Affleck was born (d. 1985). Canadian race car driver.

1950 - Ofelia Medina was born. Mexican actress and screenwriter.

1950 - Rick Perry was born. Governor of Texas.

1950 - Adam Rainer dies (b. 1899). The only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant.

1951 - Chris Rea was born. British singer and musician.

1951 - Edelgard Bulmahn was born. German politician.

1951 - Kenny Dalglish was born. Scotish footballer (soccer) and football manager.

1951 - Linda Yamamoto was born. Japanese singer.

1951 - Mike Quarry was born (d. 2006). American boxer.

1951 - Pete Haycock was born. English guitarist and composer.

1951 - Sam Perlozzo was born. American baseball manager.

1951 - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was born (d. 1982). American novelist.

1952 - Ernest Hemingway completes his short novel The Old Man and the Sea.

1952 - Ronald Reagan marries his second wife Nancy Davis in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.

1952 - Ronn Moss was born. American actor.

1952 - Umberto Tozzi was born. Italian singer.

1952 - Charles Scott Sherrington dies (b. 1857). Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1932.

1953 - Chris Smith was borm. American politician.

1953 - Emilio Estefan was born. Cuban percussionist.

1953 - Kay Lenz was born. Actress.

1953 - Paweł Janas was born. Polish football manager.

1953 - Rose Laurens was born. French singer-songwriter.

1953 - Scott Hicks was born. Ugandan-born film director.

1954 - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston announces the first successful kidney transplant.

1954 - US warns Latin America against international communism.

1954 - Adrian Zmed was born. American actor and dancer.

1954 - Catherine O'Hara was born. Canadian actress.

1954 - Irina Ratushinskaya was born. Russian writer.

1954 - François Fillon was born. French politician, Prime Minister of France.

1954 - Mark Chorvinsky was born (d. 2005). American author and editor.

1954 - Peter Jacobsen was born. American professional golfer.

1954 - Willie Thorne was born. English snooker player.

1954 - Noel Gay dies (b. 1898). English composer.

1955 - First radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent of America.

1955 - Dominique Pinon was born. French actor.

1957 - The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.

1957 - Jim Dwyer was born. American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.

1957 - Rick Mast was born. American NASCAR driver.

1958 - Patricia Heaton was born. Actress (Everybody Loves Raymond).

1958 - Lennie Lee was born. British artist.

1959 - US Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes the second (US first) artificial planet.

1959 - Rick Ardon was born. Australian news presenter.

1959 - Maxey Long dies (b. 1878). American athlete.

1960 - French freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100. Fidel Castro blames the U.S.

1960 - Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz.

1960 - Mykelti Williamson was born. American actor.

1960 - Mikko Kuustonen was born. Finnish singer and songwriter.

1960 - John Mugabi was born. Ugandan boxer.

1960 - Mykelti Williamson was born. American actor.

1960 - Herbert O'Conor dies (b. 1896). 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland.

1960 - Leonard Warren dies (b. 1911). American baritone.

1961 - Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary General of NATO.

1961 - Ray Mancini was born. American boxer.

1961 - Steven Weber was born. American actor.

1961 - Roger Wessels was born. South African golfer.

1962 - United States Atomic Energy Commission AEC announces that the first atomic power plant in Antarctica is in operation.

1962 - Friðrik Erlingsson was born. Iceland musician and writer.

1962 - Simon Bisley was born. British comic book artist.

1962 - Lolo Ferrari was born (d. 2000). French actress.

1962 - Greg Kragen was born. American footballer.

1962 - David Sparrow was born. British actor.

1962 - George Mogridge dies (b. 1889). Major League Baseball pitcher.

1963 - In Paris six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.

1963 - Daniel Roebuck was born. American actor.

1963 - Janey Lee Grace was born. British singer, author, television presenter and radio disc jockey.

1963 - Jason Newsted was born. American bassist.

1963 - José Luís Arnaut was born. Portuguese politician.

1963 - William Carlos Williams dies (b. 1883). American poet.

1964 - Jimmy Hoffa, President of the Teamsters, is convicted by a Federal jury of tampering with a Federal jury.

1964 - Tom Lampkin was born. American baseball player.

1965 - Gary Helms was born. Kickboxer.

1965 - Paul W.S. Anderson was born. British filmmaker.

1965 - Andrew Collins was born. British journalist, scriptwriter and broadcaster.

1965 - Stacy Edwards was born. American actress.

1965 - Gary Helms was born. American country singer.

1965 - Khaled Hosseini was born. Afghan author and physician.

1965 - WestBam (Maximillian Lenz) was born. German rave techno DJ.

1966 - North Sea Gas was first pumped ashore by BP (British Petroleum).

1966 - John Lennon says The Beatles are "more popular than Jesus" which sparks controversy in the United States.

1966 - Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, killing 64 people.

1966 - Daniela Amavia was born. American actress and international model.

1966 - Steve Bastoni was born. Italian Australian actor.

1966 - Sophia Ferrari was born. Italian actress.

1966 - Emese Hunyady was born. Former Hungarian speed skater.

1966 - Kevin Johnson was born. American basketball player.

1966 - Dav Pilkey was born. American author.

1966 - Grand Puba was born. American rapper.

1966 - Wash Westmoreland was born. British film director.

1967 - The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington, County Durham by BP (British Petroleum).

1967 - Queens Park Rangers win the League Cup Final at Wembley Stadium beating West Bromwich Albion.

1967 - Evan Dando was born. American musician.

1967 - Daryll Cullinan was born. South African cricketer.

1967 - Vladan Desnica dies (b. 1905). Croatian and Serbian writer.

1967 - Michel Plancherel dies (b. 1885). Swiss mathematician.

1967 - José Martínez Ruiz dies (b. 1873). Spanish poet and writer.

1968 - Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign.

1968 - Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title.

1968 - Patsy Kensit was born. British actress.

1968 - Giovanni Carrara was born. Venezuelan baseball player

1969 - The Kray twins, Ronald and Reginald, face life sentences after being found guilty of the murder of Jack McVitie at the Central Criminal Court.

1969 - Chastity Bono was born. American actress and gay rights activist.

1969 - Pierluigi Casiraghi was born. Italian football manager.

1969 - Annie Shizuka Inoh was born. Taiwanese actress.

1969 - Patrick Roach was born. Canadian actor.

1969 - Jason Townsend was born. American artist and record producer.

1969 - Nicholas Schenck dies (b. 1881). Russian-born film empresario.

1970 - French submarine Eurydice explodes.

1970 - Andrea Bendewald was born. American actress.

1970 - Álex Crivillé was born. Former Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

1971 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau marries Margaret Sinclair in St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church, Vancouver and becomes the first Prime Minister of Canada to marry while in office. The couple divorced in 1984.

1971 - Iain Baird was born. Canadian soccer player.

1971 - Fergal Lawler was born. Irish drummer (The Cranberries).

1971 - Shavar Ross was born. American actor-turned film director, writer, film producer and editor.

1971 - Nick Stabile was born. American actor.

1971 - Jovan Stanković was born. Serbian footballer.

1972 - Last train run between Penrith to Keswick, UK.

1972 - Libya and USSR sign co-operation treaty.

1972 - Pae Gil-Su was born. North Korean gymnast.

1972 - Ivy Queen was born. American composer and singer.

1972 - Robert Smith was born. American footballer.

1972 - Jos Verstappen was born. Dutch race car driver.

1972 - Alison Wheeler was born. British singer (The Beautiful South).

1973 - 15th Grammy Awards: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America.

1973 - Summer Cummings was born. American actress.

1973 - Phillip Daniels was born. American footballer.

1973 - Len Wiseman was born. American director.

1973 - Samuel Tolansky dies (b. 1907). British scientist and expert on spectroscopy.

1974 - Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister following the resignation of his predecessor Edward Heath.

1974 - The first People Magazine hits stores.

1974 - The Rio-Niterói Bridge connecting the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói in Brazil is opened / Inauguração da construção da Ponte Rio-Niterói (Brasil), com 12.9 quilómetros de extensão e vão central de 300 metros.

1974 - Gabriel, O Pensador ("the thinker") was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian rap musician.

1974 - Karol Kučera was born. Slovak tennis player.

1974 - Ariel Ortega was born. Argentine footballer.

1974 - Tommy Phelps was born. American baseball player.

1974 - Adolph Gottlieb dies (b. 1903). American painter.

1975 - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England.

1975 - The first television coverage of a Canadian parliamentary committee is broadcast.

1975 - Antti Aalto was born. Finnish ice hockey player.

1975 - Hawksley Workman was born. Canadian rock singer-songwriter.

1975 - Kim Jung-Eun was born. South Korean actress.

1975 - Kirsten Bolm was born. German hurdler.

1975 - Patrick Femerling was born. German-born professional basketball player.

1975 - Myrna Veenstra was born. Dutch field hockey player.

1976 - The Maguire Seven are found guilty of the offence of possessing explosives and are subsequently jailed for 14 years.

1976 - The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British parliament.

1976 - ABBA arrive at Sydney airport for a promotional tour in Australia.

1976 - The last flight of the G-BSST (002) prototype aircraft that flew to the Fleet Air Arm Museum at the Royal Naval Air Station, Yeovilton, England, proving that the design calculations for supersonic flight were correct.

1976 - Hiram Bocachica was born. Puerto Rican baseball player

1976 - Sean Covel was born. American film producer

1976 - Thierry Renaer was born. Belgian field hockey player

1976 - Scott Sturgeon (Stza Crack) was born. American musician (Choking Victim and Leftover Crack)

1976 - Vic Wunderle was born. American archer

1976 - Walter H. Schottky dies (b. 1886). German physicist.

1977 - The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.

1977 - The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.

1977 - Anna Baitchik was born. Miss Russia - Universe (1977)

1977 - Ana Guevara was born. Mexican athlete

1977 - Daniel Klewer was born. German footballer

1977 - Jason Marsalis was born. American musician

1977 - Sabrina Sabrok was born. Argentine-Mexican model, television actress and singer.

1977 - Andrés Caicedo dies (b. 1951). Colombian writer.

1977 - Toma Caragiu dies (b. 1925). Romanian actor.

1977 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk dies (b. 1887). German politician and former Chancellor of Germany.

1978 - Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue.

1978 - Denis Dallan was born. Italian rugby union footballer.

1978 - Rachel Roberts was born. Canadian model and actress.

1978 - Pierre Dagenais was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1978 - Nate Ackerman was born. British-American logician and wrestler.

1978 - Wesley Bolin dies (b. 1909). Former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona.

1979 - US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings.

1979 - The Ugandan capital of Kampala is threatened by invading Tanzanian forces.

1979 - The first encyclical written by Pope John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis (Latin for "The Redeemer of Man") is promulgated less than five months after his installation as pope.

1979 - Ben Fouhy was born. New Zealand flatwater canoeist.

1979 - Geoff Huegill was born. Australian swimmer.

1979 - John Lawler (John Fratelli), Scottish singer (The Fratellis).

1979 - Willi Unsoeld dies (b. 1926). American mountain climber.

1980 -Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe and forms Zimbabwe's first black government.

1980 - Omar Bravo was born. Mexican footballer.

1980 - Jung Da Bin was born (d. 2007). South Korean actress.

1980 - Jack Hannahan was born. American baseball player.

1980 - Arash Markazi was born. American sportswriter.

1981 - Carol Banawa was born. Filipina singer and celebrity

1981 - Donny Tourette was born. Lead singer of British punk rock band Towers of London

1981 - Ariza Makukula was born. Portuguese footballer.

1981 - Yip Harburg dies (b. 1896). American lyricist.

1981 - Torin Thatcher dies (b. 1905). Indian actor.

1982 - NASA launches Intelsat V.

1982 - Landon Donovan was born. American soccer player.

1982 - Charity Rahmer was born. American actress.

1982 - Mariano Altuna was born. Argentine racing driver.

1983 - Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.

1983 - Max Vergara Poeti was born. Colombian writer

1983 - Matthew Krok was born. Former Australian child actor

1983 - Ryan Lonie was born. Australian football player.

1984 - Ai Iwamura was born. Japanese actress

1984 - Zak Whitbread was born. American-born English soccer player

1984 - Ernest Buckler dies (b. 1908). Canadian novelist.

1984 - Jewel Carmen dies (b. 1897). American actress.

1984 - Geoffrey Lumsden dies (b. 1914). British actor.

1985 - The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.

1985 - Chinedum Ndukwe was born. American football player.

1986 - The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Comet Halley and the first images ever of its nucleus.

1986 - Launch of the UK's Today tabloid newspaper (now defunct), pioneering the use of computer photosetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when British national newspapers are still using Linotype machines and letterpress.

1986 - First issue of Today newspaper in the UK.

1986 - Margo Harshman was born. American actress.

1986 - Bohdan Shust was born. Ukrainian footballer.

1986 - Tom De Mul was born. Belgian footballer.

1986 - Howard Greenfield dies (b. 1936). American songwriter.

1986 - Richard Manuel dies (b. 1943). Canadian musician.

1987 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan addresses the American nation on the Iran-Contra Affair, acknowledging his overtures to Iran had “deteriorated” into an arms-for-hostages deal.

1987 - Ding Junhui was born. Chinese snooker player .

1988 - Building of the Louvre Pyramid begins at the Napoleon court of the Louvre, in Paris, France.

1989 - Six people die and 80 are injured, some of them seriously, at the Purley Station rail crash in Surrey, England.

1989 - Time, Inc. and Warner Communications announce plans for a merger forming Time-Warner.

1989 - Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43 meter) .

1989 - Tiny Grimes dies (b. 1916). American jazz and R&B guitarist.

1990 - Space Shuttle Program: STS-36 (Atlantis 6) US 65th manned space mission returns from space.

1990 - Andrea Bowen was born. American actress.

1990 - Hank Gathers dies (b. 1967). American basketball player.

1991 - Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of First American National Bank.

1991 - The Soviet parliament in Moscow, Russia ratifies a six-nation treaty on German unification.

1991 - In Iraq, Saddam Hussein releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian prisoners of war.

1991 - Sheik Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returned to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.

1991 - Bank of Credit & Commerce Internationall divests itself of First American Bank.

1991 - Diandra Newlin was born. American actress, singer, and fashion model

1992 - Jazmin Grace Rotolo was born. Daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco

1992 - Art Babbitt dies (b. 1907). American animator.

1993 - Authorities announce the capture of suspected World Trade Center bombing conspirator Mohammad Salameh.

1993 - Alice Jones was born. British actress.

1993 - Abigail Mavity was born. American actress.

1993 - Jenna Boyd was born. American actress.

1993 - Yves Michel-Beneche was born. American actor.

1993 - Adelina Zendejas dies (b. 1909). Mexican journalist, writer and women rights activist.

1993 - Art Hodes dies (b. 1904). American jazz pianist.

1994 - Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16) launches into orbit.

1994 - Four terrorists are convicted for their roles in the World Trade Center bombing which killed six and injured more than a thousand.

1994 - Bosnia's Croats and Moslems sign an agreement to form a federation in a loose economic union with Croatia.

1994 - John Candy dies (b. 1950). Comedian and actor.

1995 - George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker.

1995 - The World Summit on Social Development begins in Copenhagen.

1995 - Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec).

1995 - Eden Ahbez dies (b. 1908). American composer.

1996 - A train carrying propane and sodium hydroxide derails in Weyauwega, Wisconsin and catches fire. 2,200 near the accident site are evacuated for 16 days.

1996 - A train carrying propane and sodium hydroxide derails in Weyauwega, Wisconsin and catches fire. 2,200 homes near the accident site are evacuated for 16 days.

1996 - Comet Hyakutake was imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter NEAR, (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous).

1996 - Minnie Pearl dies (b. 1912). American comedian.

1997 - United States President Bill Clinton bans federal funding for any research on human cloning.

1997 - In London, the match-fixing trial of footballers Bruce Grobbelar, John Fashanu and Hans Segers ends in deadlock with the jury failing to reach verdicts.

1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU).

1997 - Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia).

1997 - Robert H. Dicke dies (b. 1916). American physicist.

1997 - Carey Loftin dies (b. 1914). American actor/stuntman.

1998 - Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.

1998 - Government, naval and university computers running Windows NT across the United States crash as a result of a hacker. The crash affects computers running at MIT, Northwestern University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of California campuses at Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

1998 - O príncipe do Nepal, Dipendra, visitou a Alemanha.

1998 - Prince Paul Louis of Nassau was born. Son of Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg.

1999 - Monica Lewinsky's book detailing her affair with Bill Clinton goes on sale in the United States.

1999 - In a military court, Captain Richard Ashby of the United States Marines is acquitted of the charge of reckless flying which resulted in the deaths of 20 skiers in the Italian Alps when his low-flying jet hit a gondola cable.

1999 - El director general de la UNESCO, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, y varios Premios Nóbel de la Paz presentan en París el "Manifiesto 2000", destinado a promover la paz en el mundo.

1999 - Harry Blackmun dies (b. 1908). Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1999 - Karel van het Reve dies (b. 1921). Dutch writer.

1999 - Del Close dies (b. 1934). American actor.

2001 - Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people / Portugal: desastre com a queda de um autocarro de passageiros e alguns automóveis ao Rio Douro na sequência da queda da ponte Hintze Ribeiro, que ligava Entre-os-Rios e Castelo de Paiva. Cinquenta e nove pessoas morreram.

2001 - During the early hours a massive bomb located in a taxi explodes in front of BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to dissident Irish republicans.

2001 - A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA. See also 4 March 2001 BBC bombing.

2001 - Switzerland and the European Union: Swiss voters overwhelmingly reject a proposal for immediate membership talks with the European Union.

2001 - Glenn Hughes dies. American musician (The Village People).

2001 - Harold Stassen dies (b. 1907). American politician.

2001 - Fred Lasswell dies (b. 1916). American cartoonist.

2001 - James Rhodes dies (b. 1909). Two-time Governor of Ohio.

2002 - Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.

2002 - Multinational Force in Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.

2002 - The moderate leader albanophone Ibrahim Rugova is elected President of Kosovo by the Parliament of the Serb province that had been under international control since 1999.

2002 - Claire Davenport dies (b. 1933). English actress.

2002 - Eric Flynn dies (b. 1939). British actor/singer.

2002 - Elyne Mitchell dies (b. 1913). Australian author.

2002 - Velibor Vasović dies (b. 1939). Yugoslavian footballer.

2003 - Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn redebuts on Comedy Central .

2003 - In the southern Philippines, a bomb hidden in a backpack explodes and kills 21 people at an airport in Davao City.

2003 - In the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, at least 9 people are killed and 52 are injured when a bus falls into a deep gorge.

2003 - Jaba Ioseliani dies (b. 1926). Georgian bank robber.

2003 - Sébastien Japrisot dies (b. 1931). French author, screenwriter and film director.

2003 - Celly Campello dies (b. 18 Jun 1942). Brazilian singer.

2004 - The files of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun are released to the public five years after his death.

2004 - FIFA reveals its list of 100 Greatest Living Footballers (otherwise known as the "FIFA 100") .

2004 - Fernando Lázaro Carreter dies. Spanish philologist.

2004 - The guilty verdict for Moroccan al-Qaeda suspect Mounir el Motassadeq's involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks is overturned by the German appeals court, which orders a retrial.

2004 - John McGeoch dies (b. 1955). Scottish musician.

2004 - Claude Nougaro dies (b. 1929). French singer.

2004 - George Pake dies (b. 1924). American physicist.

2004 - Stephen Sprouse dies (b. 1953). American fashion designer.

2005 - The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.

2005 - Carly Kirkwood begins her role as the new presenter of TV3 New Zealand's highly successful, late-night news show: Nightline.

2005 - United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.

2005 - Nicola Calipari dies (b. 1953). Italian secret service agent.

2005 - Robert Consoli dies (b. 1964). American actor and musician.

2005 - Una Hale dies (b. 1922). Australian soprano.

2005 - Yuriy Kravchenko dies (b. 1951). Ukrainian statesman.

2005 - Carlos Sherman dies (b. 1934). Uruguayan-born writer.

2006 - A new species of shark, Mustelus hacat, is discovered in Mexico's Sea of Cortez, bringing the number of Mustelus species found in the eastern North Pacific to 5.

2006 - The central Papeete power station is damaged by a fire, resulting in limited power for some areas of Tahiti for a couple of weeks.

2006 - Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response is received.

2006 - Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway is christened by Bishop Ole Christian Kvarme at the chapel inside the Royal Palace, Oslo.

2006 - Roman Ogaza dies (b. 1952). Polish footballer.

2006 - John Reynolds Gardiner dies (b. 1944). American engineer.

2006 - Dave Rose dies (b. 1910). American artist.

2006 - Edgar Valter dies (b. 1929). Estonian illustrator/cartoonist.

2007 - The first of two total lunar eclipse in 2007, observed during the early hours (penumbral eclipse ending 02:23:44 UT), is unique in that it is partly visible from every continent around the world.

2007 - Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.

2007 - Bob Hattoy dies (b. 1950). American activist.

2007 - Ian Wooldridge dies (b. 1932). British sports journalist.

2007 – Jorge Kolle Cueto dies. Bolivian politician.

2007 - Natalie Bodanya (Natalie Bodanskaya) dies (b. 1908). American soprano.

2007 - Richard Joseph dies (b. 1954). British games soundtrack composer.

2007 - Sunil Kumar Mahato dies (b. 1966). Indian parliamentarian.

2007 - Tadeusz Nalepa dies (b. 1934). Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist.

2007 - Thomas Eagleton dies (b. 1929). American politician.

2008 - Elena Nathanael dies (b. 1941). Greek film actress.

2008 - Gary Gygax dies (b. 1938). Fantasy author and role-playing games creator.

2008 - George Walter dies (b. 1928). Former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda.

2008 - Leonard Rosenman dies (b. 1924). American film, television and concert composer.